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API Ninjas pricing and alternatives: VIN decoder API

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0% complete: none of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 VINsWe rank 47 plans by price. API Ninjas's $299 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 VINs: $0.03.VINquery's $180 pack covers any number of VINs. VINquery's $180 pack costs less to start than API Ninjas's $299 monthly plan.
Plan: Free one of API Ninjas's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/vinlookup API Ninjas's only call for this API
API: VIN decoder API one of API Ninjas's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 8 key fields we check: Type, Engine, Fuel, Drivetrain and 4 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 3,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send vin to GET /v1/vinlookup. The call returns the vehicle's make, model, year and specs.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API Ninjas: VIN decoder API alternatives

The table starts with API Ninjas's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 VINs closest to API Ninjas's.

API Ninjas, $2,388 yearlyCarAPI, $299 yearlyAuto.dev, $599 monthly, Scale, GET /specs/{vin}MarketCheck, $299 monthly, Basic, GET /v2/decode/car/{vin}/specsCarsXE, $2,490 yearly, Pro (billed annually), GET /specs
$ per 1,000 VINs$0.02$0.137$1.00$1.50$8.30
Completeness0%75%50%50%63%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$2,388$299$599$299$2,490
Enough for10,000,000 calls a month6,000 calls a dayas many as you pay foras many as you pay for25,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknown1 dayunknownunknown1 day
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years oldanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter contractsanyoneanyone

VIN decoder API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. api-ninjas.com
  2. api-ninjas.com/api/vinlookup
  3. api-ninjas.com/error-codes
  4. api-ninjas.com/openapi.json
  5. api-ninjas.com/pricing
  6. api-ninjas.com/tos

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Type, not in the answer
  • Engine, not in the answer
  • Fuel, not in the answer
  • Drivetrain, not in the answer
  • Size and weight, not in the answer
  • Airbags and belts, not in the answer
  • Driver assists, not in the answer
  • Plant, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 VINs$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 283 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe VIN Lookup API decodes Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) from vehicles built and sold anywhere in the world (North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Oceania), covering over 600 makes.
Data
Keep datafor as long as your paid Subscription Plan remains active: once it ends or is canceled, you must immediately cease all commercial use of the Services and Output, and you may not continue to display, use, or provide Output in your commercial applications, products, or to your clients. Data caching/storing allowed: Yes on Business, Professional and Enterprise, No on Developer and Free
Use dataIf you are using the Free Subscription Plan, you may use the Services and Output solely for personal, non-commercial purposes and for development, testing, or evaluation of your Customer Applications. You may NOT: Use the Services or Output in any commercial environment. Use the Services or Output in any commercial product, service, or application, whether internal or external Share, distribute, or make available any Output or content from the Services to any third party in any form [...] Commercial use of the Services or Output is permitted while your paid Subscription Plan remains active. [...] You are strictly prohibited from using any information or Output from the Services to develop, train, maintain, or operate any API, software, database, or service that competes with API Ninjas—regardless of whether it is available on our platform or elsewhere. This prohibition extends to repackaging, redistributing, or making the Output or data accessible in any way that would compete with or substitute for our Services. [...] You agree NOT to use the Services for any purpose that: [...] Resells, redistributes, or sublicenses API access without authorization Creates competing products or services using our APIs White-labels or rebrands Output as your own data source Uses the Free plan for commercial purposes Shares or transfers API Keys to unauthorized parties [...] Attribution required: Yes (Free plan)
Plan
Pay$0
You get3,000 requests a month
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second0.028
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.33 s
The call
You sendvin
MethodGET
Path/v1/vinlookup
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

VIN, year, country, region, WMI, VDS, VIS

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